Course Outline
Understanding Nutanix AOS Services and AOS Storage Services
Exploring Storage Components
AOS Storage Data Pathing
Hands-on Labs
Creating a Storage Container
Updating Reported Capacity
Creating Highly Available, Resilient Infrastructure
Storage Optimization and Data Efficiency
Optimizing and Planning for New Workloads
Storage Best Practices for Application Workloads
Hands-on Labs
Observing Nutanix Cloning Efficiency
Reserving Rebuild Capacity in AHV
Observing the Rebuild Process
Disabling Rebuild Capacity Reservation
Creating a Storage Container with Deduplication Enabled
Reviewing Deduplication Savings
Enabling Replication Factor 1 and Creating a Storage Container
Optimizing Physical & Virtual Networks
Best Practices
Hands-on Labs
Managing Virtual Switches and Uplinks
Viewing Virtual Switches from Prism Element
Configuring CVM Network Segmentation
Configuring QoS Traffic Marking
Optimizing Physical & Virtual Networks
Implementing Flow Networking
Implementing VPCs
Overlay Network Use Cases
Hands-on Labs
Enabling Flow Networking
Creating an External Subnet
Creating a VPC
Creating VMs using the Overlay Subnets
Configuring Local and Remote Gateways
Establishing a VPN Connection
Verifying VPN Connectivity
Sizing the CVM & Prism Central
Alternate Methods of Provisioning User VMs
Working with GPUs in AHV
Improving VM Storage and Network Performance
Hands-on Labs
Creating VMs with the REST API
Configuring VirtIO Multi-Queue
Configuring Volumes Block Storage
Nutanix Security Technologies
User Authentication and Permissions
Hardening AHV and the CVM
Using Flow Network Security & Flow Security Central
Data Encryption with Nutanix
Managing Log Files
Hands-on Labs
Configuring Cluster Lockdown
Replacing Default SSL Certificates
Configuring Syslog Integration
Managing User Permissions
Flow Policy Constructs
Security Policy Models and Types
Enabling Microsegmentation
Creating and Applying Policies
Hands-on Labs
Enabling Flow Microsegmentation
Creating Categories
Creating VMs and Assigning Categories
Configuring Isolation and Application Security Policies
Evaluating Cluster Health
Network Packet Capture and Inspection
Acropolis Service Failures
Ensuring Efficient Physical Resource Consumption with Machine Learning
Application Monitoring and Discovery
Monitoring Performance
Hands-on Labs
Creating a Prism Central Performance Monitoring Dashboard
Creating Charts to Analyze Metrics Using Prism Central
Creating Charts to Analyze Entities Using Prism Element
Assessing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
High Availability and Data Protection
Third Party Backup Integrations
Best Practices
Hands-on Labs
Configuring Self Service Restore
Replicating Data with AOS
Disaster Recovery Orchestration
Disaster Recovery with Protection Domains
Getting Started with Nutanix Leap
Protecting Against Ransomware
Hands-on Labs
Enabling Nutanix Leap
Configuring an Availability Zone
Configuring a Protection Policy
Creating Production and Test VLANs
Preparing VMs for Nutanix Leap
Configuring a Recovery Plan
Performing Test and Planned Failover